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Saturday, 29 June 2013

Our challenge at Sweet Stampin' for this week is 'not cute'... as much as I like cute, I make loads of stuff that's not cute too, so for once there's no moaning from me lol. We're sponsored by The Hobby House and our monthly sponsor is The Ribbon Girl.

Friday, 28 June 2013

Oh my goodness... see that innocent looking die cut ladybird? Or specifically the little black spots on the ladybird? You would not believe the MESS those little spots caused! I decided to add them with a pearl pen, but the nozzle was blocked... had a bit of a poke around and couldn't clear it so thicko here squeezed hard... BIG mistake! The nozzle popped off the end and black pearl stuff sprayed and splattered everywhere - my face was a mass of little black splats, it was all over my hair, my clothes, the desk, and all over my finished card... sob! So those little 'random' white pearls have been added to cover up the black ones. I'm still picking lumps of black stuff out of my hair lol.

Thursday, 27 June 2013

Hmm... I'd like to take issue with the 'easy as' part of our challenge theme at Lili's Little Fairies! I suppose it's a simple enough recipe - 1 image, 2 papers and 3 embellishments... but I'm SO recipe challenged it took me most of a day to make this - once I'd got the image and papers sorted I just went blank... Wish I'd just shoved 3 buttons on and got it over with! We're sponsored by Dreamees with a £10 voucher for our lucky winner.

Wednesday, 26 June 2013

I've been busy with DT stuff today, but just found a few minutes to make a (very) quick card using a stamp from Inkylicious - I went looking for a stamp that the lovely Coops used and a few more dropped in my basket too... t'is all your fault Nic!

I've had Morgan's letter about secondary school today... scary scary stuff!!! He's only Year 5 so he's got another year to go yet, but we have to apply in the next few months. Where did all those years go?! We're going to have to get him used to getting on buses, because he'll have to go on his own (I'll be taking Dex to school), and I'm panicking about it already! Eeeeeeek!

Well now I've got myself all stressed lol! Off for a little wander around some of your blogs... Hope you all have a lovely evening :o)

Monday, 24 June 2013

I've made a couple of cards for this week's Less is More challenge, which is to make a card suitable for the lovely Jen's birthday... I used coloured base cards, LOTV stamps and butterflies - all quite 'Jen'... Unfortunately Dozy here forgot that I should probably have used birthday sentiments! Hopefully they'll pass but if not I'll try to pop back later in the week with another entry lol...

Saturday, 22 June 2013

Happy Saturday everyone :o) We've had a lovely day today - we met up with the in-laws for lunch, and then took the boys to the Butterfly House because one of Dex's school projects required him to tick off lots of 'mini-beasts' as he saw them... while seeing bees and ants isn't too difficult, he wasn't likely to see snakes/ newts/ frogs etc without going out somewhere. Still need to spot a ladybird and a centipede but we're almost done!

Here's a little card I made for one of Dex's friend's whose party we went to yesterday afternoon - Dex chose Lil Dumplings Rory from Pollycraft and insisted the image had to be coloured in 'green with yellow and purple stripes'... luckily these Echo Park papers were a good match!

Friday, 21 June 2013

It's my day to post on the Sugar Nellie blog and I've used one of the gorgeous new fairy stamps, and ended up with something a bit 'fussier' than my usual style (whatever that is!)... I've got a huge box full of roses and other flowers - bought because they're pretty and I couldn't resist, but hardly ever used because I find them a bit tricky to arrange, it doesn't come naturally! But if I don't start using them, I'll never have an excuse to buy more will I...

Wednesday, 19 June 2013

It's an exciting day for the Pollycraft DT - and for all Pollycraft fans too - as it's the return of the Pollycraft Challenge! Yay :o) It's a nice and easy 'anything goes' theme for the first one, and there's a £10 voucher for our lucky winner.

I've used one of the newest Lil Dumplings images for my card - you can get all 10 of these super sweet images for a bundle price of £7.50 until 30th June... this little cutie is called Fleur.

Tuesday, 18 June 2013

It's my day to post on the DigiStamp Boutique blog, and I've used one of the brand new images - so new they're not even in the shop yet, but I think they will be this evening... there's a super cute new bear too!

** Edited - the new images are now in the shop... you can see them all here **

Monday, 17 June 2013

I'm a bit late showing this one, but here's the Father's Day card I made for the boys to give to Pav... I ran out of time so I cheated and used one of the fab pre-coloured LOTV images from the Vintage Boys pad.

Off for a little catch up with some of your blogs, and I also need to finish Pav's Father's Day card from the boys... which should obviously have been finished earlier, but as usual I made all the cards for orders first and left Pav's until the last minute... oops!

Today we're having a Sugar Nellie hop, to celebrate the release of the GORGEOUS Return to Fairy Glen stamps... There are 6 of these little lovelies, and you can get them all at Funky Kits for the special launch price of £28 for this weekend only... well you know you're going to want them all!

Soooo... you should have arrived here from the lovely Jennifer's blog - if not, pop to the beginning over on the Sugar Nellie blog... You wouldn't want to miss anything, there's candy to be won along the way!

The stamp I've used is called Live Laugh Love, and she's SO pretty! They all are though, I can't wait to get the others coloured in.

Friday, 14 June 2013

Hello everyone... Woohoo, my new stamps arrived from LOTV, and as I needed a baby card I used one within an hour of them arriving :o) Love these new sentiments! No moaning from me today - I'm actually quite happy with this one, although it's fairly simple...

Thursday, 13 June 2013

I'm here with my DT card for Lili's Little Fairies, where our challenge for this week is 'get well soon' - and there's a two week guest DT spot for our winner. I've used one of the pretty pre-coloured images from the Wild Flowers Art Pad.

Wednesday, 12 June 2013

Sorry, that's how I'm feeling about my creations at the moment - just blah! Nothing especially wrong with this card, and nothing that great about it either... I'm just having an inspiration free week I think, mojo must have gone off for a holiday.

This card is for my auntie's little girl to give to her daddy - orders are the perfect excuse to buy images that I like, but that don't suit my own family (as we have 2 boys)... this one from Mo Manning is so sweet :o)

Tuesday, 11 June 2013

Hello everyone, hope you're having a good week so far :o) Is anyone else having the same weird blogger issues as me? Yesterday evening's post, posted around my usual time, actually appeared on blogger's reader this morning... it was there on my blog, but just didn't show up on the reader. I wonder what time this one will pop up! I've noticed it happening on other people's posts too, when it's obvious they've posted the day before but for some reason blogger didn't show it. Any idea why?

Anyway, today's card is my DT card for the DigiStamp Boutique blog, using the very cute Baby Henry - only one photo today because the others are all very wonky! I made this last week following the sketch at Sketch Saturday, but obviously I'm too late to enter now.

Saturday, 8 June 2013

I've been playing with the Impression Obsession Sunglasses dies from My Crafty Heart and made a couple of sets of these slightly silly cards... I quite like silly puns and the customers seem to like them too! I also did some with 'spec-tacular dad' on for father's day, but for some reason I didn't take a photo of those.

Thursday, 6 June 2013

I'm trying to get a bit ahead with DT cards, so as I can't show anything I've made in the last couple of days I thought I'd see what I'd got 'in reserve'... fairly sure this one hasn't been blogged before!

Tuesday, 4 June 2013

... and here's the card I made for Pav, using one of the gorgeous new Impression Obsession dies from My Crafty Heart.... although I've just realised I've followed the picture on the packet instead of using my own brain and working out that those bits in front of the birds should have been added as wings... Why couldn't I have figured that out before I stuck everything down and took pics lol?! Oh well, at least I'll know for next time I use it!

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About Me

I'm Lisa, and I live in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, with my husband Pav and our 2 boys Morgan (15) and Dexter (10yrs). We also had another son, Harvey, who sadly was stillborn in Feb 2007. I've always lived in Sheffield, but my husband is from Poland.
I'm completely obsessed with cardmaking - I think I even dream cards!
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